Improvement in fastening attachments for horses feet



w.- B. WHITE. FASTENING ATTACHMENTS FOR HORSES FEET.

Patented July 25,1876.

Mm %%LN\/EN U R B msAw a \A/ITN ESEEE 45W IIIED STATES WILLIAM B. WHITE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,295, dated July 25, 1876; application filed June 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM B. WHITE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Attachment to be used upon Horses Feet; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyin 'drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object of this invention is to provide a fastening device to be used in connection with boots, bands, straps, weights, and other articles intended to be secured to horses feet. Such boots, bands, 850., are liable to slip and work up onto the leg, and my device is intended to keep them down in the proper position upon the hoof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view, in perspective, of a horses foot andshoe, showing my fastening device holding in place an elastic band. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents a horses foot, and b the shoe. 0 is an elastic hand, drawn tightly around the foot, and intended to prevent the quartercrack I) from extending, and to strengthen the foot. If this band 0 were placed upon the foot with no fastening device to hold it in place it would soon work up out of place, especially upon a flat-footed animal. Hence I apply the strap e as a fastener. The strap 6 commences at the point e, passesup through I v the buckle, h; then, bending outward, passes down through the opening d in the hook d. which is forced in between the hoof; then up next the foot, inside the band 0, and through the buckle h, where it is fastened. f is the.

The hook (I is constructed as such hooks usually are, with the addition of the opening at. The strap 0 is, in connection with the fastening arrangement, of great value in cases of quarter-cracks, weak feet, 850.

This fastener may be used in connection with boots, ,straps, bands, weights, 860., for animals feet wherever it can be applied.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I In combination with the hook cl d, the strap e, arranged in the manner and position shown, and provided with a double loop by means of the dividing-loop g, for the purpose of holding in place a horses or other animals boot, band, or other foot attachment, as herein set forth.

WILLIAM B. WHITE. Witnesses: HENRY W. WILLIAMS, R. A. GEORGE. 

